About Artist
As a visual artist working with the languages of drawing, painting, photography, and documentary film, John Halaka’s artwork investigates cycles of repression and displacement, as well as the personal and political relationships between desire, denial, and instability. One of the objectives of his creative practice is to firmly place the experiences of Palestinian displacement in the international discourse on human rights, forced migration, and the right of return of all indigenous refugees.
Halaka is a visual artist and professor of visual arts at the University of San Diego, where he has taught since 1991. He received his MFA in the visual arts from the University of Houston in 1983, and his BFA from the City University of New York Baccalaureate Program, with Brooklyn College as his home school. Halaka’s artwork has been exhibited and his films have been screened nationally and internationally. Halaka is the recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship that enabled him to record personal narratives from three generations of Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon. His fieldwork in Lebanon permitted him to develop an ongoing multidisciplinary project titled Portraits of Denial & Desire. The drawings for the series Ghosts of Presence / Bodies of Absence are an outgrowth of that project.
Conditions
The following conditions of sale describe the relationship between the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA and the buyers, prospective buyers, and bidders for the Keyword: Palestine II Art Exhibition and Auction which will begin on March 2nd, 2020, and end on December 31st, 2020. By using this website to buy, bid, or inquire about any artwork, you agree to be bound by these conditions.
When you place a bid on any artwork, you are accepting personal liability for the purchase price, any applicable taxes, any and all shipping and packing costs, and all other applicable charges. Any artwork bought by residents of the District of Columbia will be subjected to a 6% sales tax on the market value of the artwork. All U.S. resident buyers can claim tax deductions on amounts that exceed the market value of the artwork. Market value of artwork is their starting value.
Bid winners can pick up the artwork they bought from the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA or have the Institute arrange for shipment, however, reiterating, that the buyer is responsible for all packing and shipment costs.
There will be ten (10) bidding cycles. Each cycle will close on the last day of the month at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (USA) at which time the highest bidder for the art will be notified of their winning bid.
Please note that all bids are final once submitted and may not be cancelled or modified by you, except with our express written consent under circumstances that we consider appropriate at our sole discretion. Please also note that all sales are final.